To try the US that supports terror

Since the day the civil war began in Syria, Turkey has been hosting 3.5 million people who were forced to take refuge in the country to save their lives. In addition, it is estimated that there are currently 1.5 million Syrians in Lebanon, 2 million in Jordan, and in Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, and various European countries more than 1 million in total. Together with the displacements within the country and those killed in the war, from whichever side you look, at least half of the Syrian people have been torn from their homes and homeland because of the problem that has continued for 7 years.

All these refugees in different countries are the strongest proof that conditions in their own country have become unlivable. A refugee strips away the legitimacy of the regime in his own country. A refugee is a living witness that a crime against humanity is being committed in his own country.

In Syria this influx of asylum seekers continued when everything was left to itself, and also when there was any external intervention. The most important part of these refugees leave their country fleeing the regime's tyranny, but some are also fleeing the tyranny of other terrorist organizations. In Turkey there are all kinds. There are those fleeing Assad's tyranny, there are Arabs, Turkmens, and Kurds fleeing the ethnic-cleansing terror of the PYD-PKK, and there are those fleeing the tyranny of DAEŞ.

Turkey is a country that has both the largest number of people and people fleeing the tyranny of every kind of terrorist organization. Turkey, which is immediately affected by every movement in Syria and which receives yet another wave of migration, for this reason alone is the party with the greatest right to speak and intervene on Syria. Frankly, everything that happens in Syria is therefore not Turkey's foreign problem but its domestic problem.

Compared with this position of Turkey, the US has no convincing argument to put forward for involving itself in Syria from 5000 miles away. Having made the fight against terrorism a global problem, the US writes itself a duty from this. Yet all its actions feed terrorism more rather than preventing it, and enlarge the danger of terror still further. Because what the US does in the name of fighting terrorism turns out to be cooperating with other terrorist organizations rather than standing in solidarity with the countries most directly affected by terror.

The US does more than that. It arms an organization whose reason for existence in Syria is hostility to Turkey with 5000 trucks and 2000 cargo planes full of weapons. It expects us to believe that these weapons were given to be used only against DAEŞ.

Let it go on expecting. Of course we were not going to believe it. We made clear on every occasion that we did not believe it, we said it openly, and we announced to the entire world that the US is at this moment supporting a terrorist organization red-handed.

In fact the US has been caught in flagrante delicto in a crime more open than at any time in its history. If this is pursued successfully, its gain will be very beneficial not only for Turkey but for the whole world. Because the whole world has long suffered from this kind of lawless, conspiratorial activity of the US, but no one had either the courage to oppose it or, in hand, sufficiently open, strong, evidenced files with which to criticize its activities strongly and invite it back to the line of international law.

Yet what they have done in Syria are crimes of the kind that would put the US in a difficult position before its own citizens and its own legal and political institutions. It is inevitable that the American people ask their own war and intelligence institutions this question: How can you cooperate against a terrorist organization, even if it is against one, with a structure that is listed among terrorist organizations even in your own records, and moreover against your own NATO ally, and how can you arm it?

It is inevitable that this dirty relationship, which US officials have now taken the risk of, for whatever reason, will sooner or later be tried as a scandal within the US legal system. By saying this you may think I am being more optimistic than necessary about US law.

The US has a structure in which, for better or worse, separation of powers and internal conflicts are strongly experienced. But for this development to be possible, first of all we must hold on strongly and together to our own rightness within.

Unfortunately, because of our own main opposition that dilutes this one hundred percent rightful position of Turkey, with its chairman, we are forced to be more optimistic than necessary about a justice that will be realized within the US system.

CHP Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu, while an unimaginable war fortification is being built against our country through a terrorist organization by someone who has come from 5000 miles away, still continues his efforts to dilute Turkey's Afrin operation. At the beginning of the operation he said that Turkey's gunpowder had run out, as if to motivate Turkey's enemies to continue the war, and now he says we should not go deep into Afrin.

Why? What kind of worry does the possibility of destroying the threat at its root give rise to in Kılıçdaroğlu? Many will become martyrs, it will be a pity, he says. Fine, but are there no martyrs when Turkey does not intervene? When Turkey does not go, they come, do you not see?

We say 5000 trucks, 2000 plane cargoes full of weapons. We say a Kandil-ized Afrin...

Do these not look like the possibility of more martyrs in the future?

Really, where are you looking at what is going on from, Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu?